What would you do if you saw your neighbour’s house burning, and no one calling for help?
Every day, Christians in Nigeria are being hunted, tortured, and massacred in their own homes, churches, and villages. These aren’t random acts. More than 62,000 Christians have been killed since 2000. Seven-thousand just last year.
- In Kaduna, 36 Christians were kidnapped in one week.
- In Benue, 218 Christians were slaughtered and 6,000 driven from their homes in June alone.
- In Taraba, 42 Christians, most of them women and children, were killed in a single attack that left 5,000 people homeless.
- The Yelwata massacre this summer cost as many as 200 Christian lives in two bloody nights; 3,000 fled on foot.
These atrocities often happen at night. Armed gangs raid villages, burn churches, rape, kidnap, and kill fathers in front of their children.
Survivors tell us about mass graves, gutted houses, and bodies left in the fields. The horror is unimaginable.
Christians are targeted for one reason alone: they follow Christ.
The government ignores them. Security forces show up late, if at all, and look the other way.
Leaders call the violence “clashes” and go back to sleep while blood soaks the earth. There’s no justice. The killers walk free, ready to strike again.
This is why the world must act before it’s too late. Waiting means more parents orphaned, more children abducted, and more families wiped out.
The U.S. must immediately designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern and impose visa bans and consequences on complicit officials. Empty words aren’t enough.
Nigeria is the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian.
Every two hours, another believer is killed because of their faith.
These tragedies have names and faces. Churches torched with worshippers inside. Priests and pastors executed. Children were kidnapped from Sunday school.
The cruelty defies words. Armed militants attack at night, hunting fathers, abducting mothers, and torching homes. They bury bodies in haste.
Priests, nuns and pastors are singled out for murder. Nigeria is notorious for the abduction and killing of clergy.
Incredibly, in 2021, the Biden Administration removed Nigeria from the list of Countries of Particular Concern.
This sent a message to the killers: keep going—nobody’s watching anymore.
Since then, massacres and abductions have only grown.
CitizenGO refuses to be silent. We travel to the massacre sites. We meet survivors and demand justice. We bring your signatures straight to power.
We’ve taken this fight to the ECOWAS court, the African Union, and Nigeria’s own parliament. Still, the carnage continues.
We cannot allow the U.S. to blindly ignore the atrocities. We must demand consequences, visa bans, aid restrictions, military aid with strings attached.
As the world leader in peace, the Trump Administrtion must not abandoned its duty. And the Nigerian Regime must answer for the blood of the martyrs.
Our anger is justified, and so is our action. The world must force Nigeria to act.
Silence is complicity.
Delay is death.
Restoring Nigeria to the CPC list means the world stops ignoring these massacres. Leaders will face real costs, loss of foreign aid, visa bans, and public shame.
There’s still hope. But only if we show an overwhelming outcry, thousands of names united in outrage and compassion.
Every minute matters. Nigeria’s Christians cannot wait any longer for protection or justice.
We must speak for them, now.
Thank you for standing up for life, faith, and freedom.
More information:
“Thousands of Christians ‘deliberately targeted’ and killed in Nigeria by terrorists: report” — Open Doors International. URL: https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/world-news/thousands-of-christians-deliberately-targeted-and-killed-in-nigeria-report/
“Nigeria is the Most Dangerous Country in the World for Christians” — ADF International. URL: https://adfinternational.org/commentary/nigeria-most-dangerous-country-christians
“Ethnic, Religious Violence in Nigeria Has Claimed Nearly 56,000 Lives: 2019–2023 Report” — ACI Africa / Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa. URL: https://www.aciafrica.org/news/11923/ethnic-religious-violence-in-nigeria-has-claimed-nearly-56000-lives-2019-2023-report
“NIGERIA: Over 16,000 Christians killed in 4 years in targeted violence” — Church in Chains / ORFA data URL: https://www.churchinchains.ie/news-by-country/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria/nigeria-over-16000-christians-killed-in-4-years-in-targeted-violence/
“Forty-two people killed in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on herders” — The Guardian. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/nigeria-attacks-benue
